Harvester



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HARVESTER.

Patented Jan. 25, 1887.

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HARVESTER.

Patented Jan. 25 1887.

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XAVIER H. MARTINENT, OF FISH LAKE VALLEY, NEVADA.

HARVESTE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,655, dated January 2.5, 1887.

Application filed August 31, 1885.

(lraper-platform,and in the driving mechanism.

for'thc draper and sickle adapted to adjust itself to the movement of the diaper-platform, all of which I shall hereinafter fully describe.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective means for adjusting the draper-platform for a high or low cut, as may be desired, and to provide suitable driving mechanism to adapt itself to the adjustment of Figure 1 is a plan of my harvester.

the platform.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Fig. 2 is a detail showing shafts L and K. Fig. 3 isa rear view, and Fig. 4: is a detail showing the boxes I andJ and the shafts K and L and their adjuncts.

A is the main frame of the header,and B is the push-beam.

G are the wheels on which the frame is mounted,the left-hand wheel being here shown as the bull or driving wheel.

D is the diaper-platform, D the drnper, and S the sickle.

The diaper-platform is hinged to the front bar of the main frame by hinges d. On the rear bar of this platform are firmly secured at their lower ends bars or strips E, which incline upwardly and converge to the point, where their upper ends are secured to the forward end of the operatingdever 1?, the attachment of said bars and lever being a loose one.

G are two bars, which are secured to the main frame of the header and inclineupwardl y, converging, as shown, and meeting at their upper ends about in the plane of the longitudinal center of the machine. On one of these bars the operating-lever F rests, and is fulerumed, as shown. By moving the lever F the draperplatform is adjusted to the elevation desired. The drapcr'D is driven by the following mechanism:

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H is a short countershaft journaled in one side of the header-frame, and having on its outer end a gear, h, which engages an annular gear-band, c, on the inner surface of the hullwheel 0. The shaft H carries also a bevelgear, h. In the front bar of the main headerframe is a box, I, which is adapted to have a vertical adj ustinent,sliding freely up and down in guides or runners i, bolted to the front bar, as shown in Fig. 4. In the side bars of the frame is journaled in the boxes J a short rockshaft, K, which is held in position by suitable guides or runners, and carries aboxflain which is journaled a shaft, L. The forward portion of this shaft is journaled in the vertically-adjustable box I, its extreme forward end being journaled and held in position by a box, T, on the rear bar of the draper-platforni. The shaft L therefore rises with the platform, moves with box I, and rocks with shaft K.

M is a pulley on shaft L, from which abelt, m, extends to a pulley, m, on one of the draper-drums. The rear end of the shaft car ries a bevel-gear, N, which meshes with the bevel-gear it on the counter-shaft H.

It will be observed that as the draper-platform is moved up and down theshaftL moves with it, rising with the box I, and turning slightly with the rock-shaft K, whereby its gear N is still held to its engagementwith the bevelgear h.

0 is the usual. rod by which the power-trans mitting mechanism is thrown into and out of gear with the bull-wheel G.

P is a pivoted lever or pitnian, by which the sickle S is driven, motion being transmitted to said pitman by a rod, 1), to which a reciprocating movement is imparted by any suitable mechanism from the shaft L, as by an eccentrio, 1).

7 Having thus described myinventiou, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a harvester, the adjustable diaper-platform D, hinged to the main frame, and the draper D thereon, in combination with the diaper-driving mechanism consisting of the shaft L, having pulley M and bcvel-gear N, the vertically-adj ustable box I, the rock-shaft K, journaled in the main frame and carrying the sleeve K, having box hand the box T,in which the forward end of the shaft L is journaled, the

counter-shaft H, deriving power from the bull or driving wheel of the main frame, and having bevel-gear h, meshing with the gear N, and the belt m and the pulley m on the draperdrnm, substantially as herein described.

2. In a harvester, the adjustable platform D.

and the sickles, in combination with the means by which the sickle is driven,consisting of the pitman P, the rod p, and the shaft L, having eceentricp, and bevel-gear N, the verticallyadjustablebox I, rock-shaft K, journaled in the main frame and carrying the sleeve K,

having bOX 7c, and the box '1, in which the for ward end of the shaft is journaled, and the counter-shaft H, deriving power from the bull or driving wheel, and. having pinion h, meshingwith pinion N, substantially as herein described.

3. In aharvester, the adj ustable diaper-platform D,the draper D, and the sickle S, in

bull or drivingwheel, and having bevel-gear h, meshing with gear N, thebelt m and pulley m on the draper-drum, the pitman P, and the 'rod 12, extending from the eccentric to the pitman, substantially as herein described.

Inwitness whereof I have hereunto set my. hand.

X. H. MARTINENT.

Witnesses:

LoUIs MARRATTE, PETER GEMUR. 

